Three LateCareer Gems

Though known for Seventies classics, he’s done some of his best work in the past decade. Here are some recent winners:

Over a flurry of acoustic fingerpicking, Buckingham starts off wry — referencing a review that “said I was a visionary, but nobody knew” — then turns melancholy about feeling unseen and lost in time. Deeply affecting — and as straightforwardly soulbaring a song as he’s ever written.

A standout from the Buckingham McVie album, and perhaps the LP’s most Fleetwood Mac-ian — with a killer pop chorus that wouldn’t have been out of place on Rumours.

After a breathy, fingerpicked intro, the song merges into the HOV lane at high speed with a jangly guitar hook that crescendos into a chorus that features Buckingham’s voice merging with, well, other Buckingham voices into a joyous harmony. The platonic ideal of the perfect Lindsey song.